NOC 2021 · 83110 · TEER 3
Logging machinery operators
Unit group 83110 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Logging machinery operators operate cable yarding systems, mechanical harvesters and forwarders and mechanical tree processors and loaders to fell, yard and process trees at logging sites. They are employed by logging companies and contractors.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- bunk skidder operator
- cable yarding operator
- cable yarding system operator
- chipping machine operator
- chipping machine operator - logging
- crane and claw operator - logging
- delimber and buncher operator
- delimber operator
- feller buncher operator
- feller delimber operator
- feller forwarder operator
- forwarder operator - logging
- grapple loader operator - logging
- grapple operator - logging
- grapple yarder operator - logging
- linehorse operator
- loader operator - logging
- log loader operator
- log loading machine operator
- log process operator
- log processor operator
- logging crane operator
- logging machinery operator
- logging truck loader
- mechanical harvester and forwarder operator
- mechanical harvester operator - logging
- mechanical tree processor and loader operator
- mechanical tree processor operator - logging
- mobile chipper operator - logging
- mobile whole tree chipper - logging
- picker truck operator
- pulpwood harvester operator
- rigging slinger - logging
- shortwood harvester operator
- slasher loader operator
- slasher operator - logging
- slasher saw operator - logging
- slasher sawyer operator - logging
- slasher-brusher
- steel spar operator - logging
- tree harvester operator
- tree processor operator - logging
- treelength forwarder operator
- tree-length harvester operator
- yarder operator - logging
- yarding engineer - logging
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$32.00 an hour
Low $22.00, high $40.78
Where it pays most
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$40.00
- North Coast · British Columbia$37.00
- Nechako · British Columbia$37.00
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$35.91
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$35.57
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $25.00 | $20.00 – $32.00 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $23.00 | $20.00 – $33.00 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $24.00 | $18.00 – $33.00 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $30.00 | $24.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $30.00 | $25.00 – $35.88 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $25.93 | $20.12 – $39.01 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | $30.00 | $25.00 – $32.00 | Limited |
| Alberta | $35.00 | $30.00 – $42.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $37.13 | $30.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 36 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $27.23 | $23.23 – $38.22 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $25.55 | $22.41 – $34.14 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $24.24 | $21.61 – $35.21 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $23.85 | $22.11 – $31.77 | Moderate |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $22.00 | $21.00 – $33.00 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $28.00 | $23.00 – $32.00 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $28.00 | $20.50 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $30.00 | $26.43 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $31.92 | $27.14 – $35.65 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | $30.17 | $24.00 – $36.00 | Limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $28.00 | $18.00 – $35.88 | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $22.75 | $17.62 – $38.92 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $30.00 | $25.00 – $32.00 | Limited |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | $30.00 | $25.00 – $32.00 | Limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $31.95 | $24.62 – $41.36 | Undetermined |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $34.00 | $30.00 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $33.64 | $24.23 – $40.73 | Undetermined |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $34.00 | $30.00 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $30.45 | $25.14 – $38.06 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $40.00 | $30.00 – $42.00 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $35.91 | $29.54 – $45.27 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $35.57 | $29.83 – $52.27 | Limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $35.00 | $30.00 – $42.00 | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $32.00 | $30.00 – $46.15 | Limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $37.00 | $32.00 – $40.00 | Limited |
| Nechako | British Columbia | $37.00 | $32.00 – $40.00 | Limited |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $34.00 | $32.00 – $38.00 | Moderate |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.